Scott Rose works as a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Internet infrastructure protection research and development. He co-authored the core DNSSEC specification in the IETF as well as NIST Special Publication 800-81 on DNSSEC deployment. Scott was recently awarded the Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Leadership for work in deploying and testing DNSSEC deployment at the .GOV top level domain (TLD).